The PARALLEL

Being nice to someone you don’t like is not manipulation btw it’s being civil

okay but there is something disquieting about this urge to cast fan writers as altruists. they give us all this for free!! well, no.

they’re sharing

it’s a key difference in perception. fic isn’t given. it’s shared. it’s part of a fandom community— in which readers are also an integral part.

it’s probably inevitable mission creep from the increasingly transactional nature of the internet and fandom-as-consumerism, which was always gonna happen after corps worked out how much bank there is to make from those weirdo fan people

but like. fandom is sharing. i think we’ve lost that somewhere.

Something I’ve been seeing lately is some ppl talking about bringing an algorithm to AO3 and all I can say is please, for the love of fucking god, do not. I like how AO3 doesn’t have an algorithm. I love the search function. You want something it’s easy to find. Equal opportunity for everyone to get their stuff out there.

I also think algorithms would ruin the culture there. AO3 is not social media, it’s an archive (like a library in a way) and should be kept as such.

Some Collector and Amity siblings stuff :)

I like to imagine them going to her with their nightmares, asking her to read them stories, only to fall asleep on her shoulder

I also like to imagine them getting jealous of Luz like King got jealous of Amity 'what!? no collector hug?? I demand to be held' and then they get hugged from three directions by Amity, Luz, and King

'Looks like we're going to be siblings in law, king!' And they get to be flower star person with King (at Luz and Amity's not white wedding but they agreed it was so cute when they both insisted that they just let them)

The Collector just stayed in their usual clothes, and King wore his armour of intimidation and they spent the whole day randomly showering people with little stars with focus on lumity

Also Amity letting them bash their old siblings, and being there for them when they're sad about what they lost and who lied to them.

'I just- wish you'd been my sibling the whole time.'

'Me too. Those archivist people SUCK.'

'YEAH! They didn't even try to find me when I got trapped. They just decided it was good riddance and were disappointed when I came back last week...'

'Excuse me, WHAT. Collector, please stay away from them- if they're going to lure you into a place where you could be in such danger on purpose, then completely ignore you when you get trapped instead of taking your tablet to titans blood to free you or at least bringing you to the stars to keep you company, I dread to imagine what else they'd do to you. I don't want anyone else to hurt you like Belos and the archivists have. You're a good kid, you deserve way better.'

Cue The Collector breaking down in tears in Amity's arms

And also being there for them when they're feeling guilty over their pre-Luz actions, and she can just be like 'same little dude, same' and recount stories of the things she'd done under her parents' control

'Can I make my own book of friendship?'

'Of course, Collector'

Amity reading Otabin to The Collector would be so cute - I think they'd love it, especially having a bedtime story that isn't that malicious pile of stone slabs they have

Spoilers for watching and dreaming below - the scribbles in the photos King's looking at

Just a huddle of weirdos helping the resident god make a book of friendship

I lived in a very pro trump town and I'm convinced this is what happened. It was mostly retired people who lived in newly built homes with pools (in the desert! there were gulf courses too or course). The acted like they were super oppressed and everyone was out to get them. Many of them's whole personality was around trump.

The “crab? hand?” meme except it’s the Collector going “friend?” at King.

Dana please let them interact more it would make me so happy

bro. bro thats kinda messed up

I made an animatic about The Collector and King and being friends, and I thought I'd share it here :) I hope you like it! I'm really proud of it

Here's a little scene from the end card that I'm quite fond of

S1 King Clawthorne and Kid Lloyd Garmadon would be great friends

Also

Eda would adopt Lloyd and then suggest they steal candy from babies to bond

Lloyd would wonder where this mother figure has been all his life

Shitty little doodle of the two